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This is a revision of my personal list of life goals. If you go here and have a look at the original incarnation you will notes that their were some things on the list that I have removed from this list do to the fact I did not have the financial ability to attend and the resulting fact they have taken place with out me being at them. Also you will notes I have added an item to the list as well as completing one of them.

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What fallow is a list of goals to which I hop to achieve. And some of these goals are short-term goals achievable in a few years, months or even just weeks. But others are more long-term goals only achievable by the fruition of some of the short-term goals. And it is worth noting that this list was inspired by a workshop, which was port of a coming of age retreat to which I helped to facilitate not this Fall but last Fall. And it is also worth noting that the very workshop that inspired this list was itself inspired by the one and only John Goddard and his “Life List” of 127 goals to which he wrote way back in 1940 at the age of 15 will living in LA. It is as well worth mentioning he has to date completed 104 of his 127 goals. Now I am not saying that I will necessarily be like John and complete the majority of my goals, but I do hop to complete a godly some of them over the coming years of my life. Ok I am only 26 not as young as Goddard was wen he wrote his list but I still think I am young enough to make a big bent in my list. A list to which I am sure will continue to wax and wane as I complete and add new stuff to the list and from time to time even removing a few items from the list whether do to an inability to no longer achieve them or a change of interest on my part.

Devin Murphy’s List of Life Goals

Things To study/research:
-The long-term affects of bullying on the bullied
-Learning styles
-Teaching styles and teaching techniques/approaches
-The causes of bullying
-From grate masters in the felled of education (I have yet to determine who the masters are but I will and then I will study/learn from a few of them)

Things To Accomplish:
-Open an alternative high school and tech their
-Marry and domestically adopt two children
-Became a Unitarian Universalist youth adviser
-Read the bible, both the new and old testaments (in 90 day)
-Have some of my art displayed in the lounge at “My Church” the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa as the fetched artiest of the month
-Put out a CD of original poetry and/or songs
-Finely get the “Secondary Potential” web site on line (I completed this task)
-go to university (Concordia in Montreal, Quebec) to study and get accreditation to be able to teach art at a secondary level (i.e. in high schools)

Events to Attend:
-The CUC ACM 2008 in Ottawa from May 16th-19th (I completed this task)

Devin Murphy is declaring he now forgives all his former bullies. I posted this as my status on Facebook on Tuesday evening; in fact it’s still listed as my status today. Yes it’s a bold statement to make but it’s something I now feel I most declare to the world. Yes I can’t let the hurt that was afflicted on me by those who did bully me continue to hold me back from moving my life forward. I mean I may never understand why they did hurl all that shit at me. And I may never think it was nice or even something the school system should have turned a blind eye to, but what is don is don. And who in their right mind wants something to have a hold on their life forever, yes forever preventing them from making their life into a real top-notch success. Well I do not want that. In fact what I want to do is create environments for young people to learn in safety, both physical and mental safety. Yeah my schooling was vary unsafe for the must part well mostly in high school. Look it was not all bad. It’s just that the bad times they really heart my and over shadowed any chance of me getting all the good I could have otherwise gotten from the experience. So I am going to start in the next couple of weeks the process that will get the ball rolling for me to hopefully go to university at Concordia in Montreal this coming fall to study to be a high school art teacher.

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What fallow is a list of goals to which I hop to achieve. And some of these goals are short-term goals achievable in a few years, months or even just weeks. But others are more long-term goals only achievable by the fruition of some of the short-term goals. And it is worth noting that this list was inspired by a workshop, which was port of a coming of age retreat to which I helped to facilitate this past weekend. And it is also worth noting that the very workshop that inspired this list was itself inspired by the one and only John Goddard and his “Life List” of 127 goals to which he wrote way back in 1940 at the age 15 will living in LA. It is as well worth mentioning he has to date completed 104 of his 127 goals. Now I am not saying that I will necessarily be like John and complete the majority of my goals, but I do hop to complete a godly some of them over the coming years of my like. Ok I am only 25 not as young as Goddard was wen he wrote his list but I think still young enough to make a big bent in my list. A list to which I am sure will continue to wax and wane as I complete and add new stuff to the list.

Devin Murphy’s List of Life Goals

Things To study/research:
-The long-term affects of bullying on the bullied
-Learning styles
-Teaching styles and teaching techniques/approaches
-The causes of bullying
-From grate masters in the felled of education (I have yet to determine who the masters are but I will and then I will study/learn from a few of them)

Things To Accomplish:
-Open an alternative high school and tech their
-Marry and domestically adopt two children
-Became a Unitarian Universalist youth adviser
-Read the bible, both the new and old testaments (in 90 day)
-Intern at the Albany Free School and/or the Harriet Tubman Free School
-Have some of my art displayed in the lounge at “My Church” The First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa as the fetched artiest of the month
-Put out a CD of original poetry and/or songs
-Finely get the “Secondary Potential” web site on line

Events to Attend:
-The International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) 2008 held in August from the 11th-18th and maybe the Fifth Annual AERO Conference in Troy NY, USA from Jun 26th-28th
-The CUC ACM 2008 in Ottawa from May 16th-19th

I say it’s time to get on with the future. You say so what’s it going to be like? Well it’s going to be whatever we make it into. And we can make it into nothing but a place to put all your unwanted leftovers from today, but I don’t like that idea. And it’s ‘cause that would case tomorrow to smell so bad that none would want to inhabit it. And if none are going to inhabit the future then that would men the human race most have come to an end. Well I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of the human race coming to an end, well at least when it comes to the immediate future. So if we are at least going to be around on into the immediate future and probably for a will longer then that, we need to prepare for it to be a nice smelling place or at lest a hospitable spot for us to reside in. And a good start would be to inshore that in the present we don’t do something so horrid, like contaminating all of our drinking water to a point that we can’t repair or even manage the damage of it. So what would be, a could thing to do to prepare for the future? Well tack care of what we will all need in the future. Thinks like a next generation of managers for our society and it’s resources, and well-maintained resources actually worthy of their management. So what can we all do well for starters we can start to give out accurate info on the stat of our planet, the one we call Earth, not to mention reducing our discharge of harmful substances into its natural ecosystem, to which we are a part of.

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This blog is called Realmdee which is Devin Kira Murphy’s realm of religion, music and life. It began back in January 2007, and was known as Ramblingsofmymind up until July 3, 2012. And Devin Kira Murphy is a transgender female, Unitarian Universalist Christian, artist (soundscape, visual, and poetry)… Read the rest here.